JAMSHEDPUR

New Delhi: The government will soon issue commemorative coins in honour of Tata Group founder Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata to mark his 175th birth anniversary.
"The Prime Minister's Office will release coins in honour of Jamsetji Nussserwanji Tata on January 6 or 7," a senior government official said.
Jamsetji Tata, considered as the...

Ranchi: Initiating his political career as an activist of the student movement launched by Loknayak Jaiprakash Narayan in 1976-77 and having worked as a labourer in Tata Steel, Raghubar Das has traversed a long way to take over as the first non-tribal Chief Minister of Jharkhand.
Das joined the BJP as...

Five-time Jamshedpur East MLA Raghubar Das is all set to take over as the sixth chief minister of Jharkhand. Das will be the first non-tribal leader to become the state's chief minister.
The low profile Das was born on May 3, 1955. He passed matric from Bhalubasa Harijan High School and...

Jamshedpur: An inter-state meeting of senior police and paramilitary force officers was held on Wednesday to ensure free and fair Assembly elections in Jharkhand.
Senior officers from West Bengal, Odisha and Jharkhand and from the CRPF participated in the meeting and chalked out a strategy to deal with Maoists and criminals...

Jamshedpur: Jamshedpur Utility and Services Company (JUSCO) and Association for Prevention and Control of Rabies in India (APCRI) launched an awareness campaign to mark the 'World Rabies Day' on Sunday.
Over 200 students and teachers from Jusco Shool, along with officials of JUSCO and APCRI. Have taken part in the...

New Delhi: In a relief for former TISCO chairman JJ Irani, the Supreme Court has observed that he cannot be made an accused in the 1989 Jamshedpur steel plant fire case. Sixty people had been killed and many others had been injured in the ghastly fire that took place on...

Three persons including an engineering student were arrested on Saturday while planning to commit dacoity, a senior police officer said.
Acting on a tipoff that some criminals were planning a dacoity in the house of a transporter in Kadma police station area, a special police team made a raid and arrested...

The steel city of Jamshedpur and surrounding areas today experienced hottest day of the season with the mercury soaring above 44 degree Celsius.
The maximum temperature recorded was 44.4 degree Celsius, which is seven degree Celsius above normal, while the minimum temperature was 28.6 degree Celsius, two degree above normal, met...

Former footballer Jamshid Nassiri strongly advocated for revival of the tournaments which are not being organised while reducing the duration of the ILeague to excel Indian football performance at Asian level.
Nassiri, who was in the steel city to kick off the Jamshedpur Football League at Gopal maidan on Tuesday, said...

A 72yearold man allegedly committed suicide after giving poison to his ailing wife in Bagunhatu locality in Jamshedpur, police said on Tuesday. Lakhinder Mukhi, a retired Tata Steel employee, hanged himself after making his wife, Sabitri, who was seriously ill for several months, consume Phenyle last evening, police said.
Police recovered...

Jharkhand government has directed authorities to supply potable water to slum areas in the city.
Jharkhand chief secretary had recently issued a directive asking Jamshedpur Utility and Services Company (JUSCO) to provide water supply in noncommand areas under Jugsalai, Mango and Jamshedpur Notified Area Committees.
Following the move, a senior BJP leader...

A man was arrested in the Olidih police station area in Jamshedpur after around 20 kgs of ganja was seized from him, police said on Thursday.
Acting on a tipoff, a police team intercepted an Ara (Bihar)bound bus near a petrol pump in Olidih and arrested one passenger identified as Magam...

BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi on Thursday apologised to the media for the inconvenience caused by his party supporters who surged closer to media enclosure at a rally in Jamshedpur at Gopal Maidan.
The moment Modi took to the dais to address the rally, over a dozen party supporters started scrambling...

Burglars made off with four computer monitors after breaking into Bank of India's Ichagarh branch office in the adjoining Seraikela-Kharswan district, police said.
Cash at the branch remained untouched as the burglars were unable to open the safe during the robbery which took place last night, said officer-in-charge of Ichagarh police...

A 65-year-old man axed his daughter-in-law to death in Gadigram, about 25km from Jamshedpur, in the Patamda police station area, police said on Tuesday.
The accused, identified as Mohan Majhi was arrested after he surrendered at the police station and confessed to his crime, deputy SP (Patamda) Amit Kumar said, adding...

Beheaded bodies of three teenagers including two siblings were recovered from Jamabeda jungle under Seraikela police station area in adjoining Seraikela-Kharswan district on Tuesday, police said in Jamshedpur on Tuesday.
The victims were identified as Mohammed Wasim (19), Mohammed Hasan (18) and his brother Mohammed Hussan (19), all residents of Seraikela's...

One of the oldest Film Society of the Eastern India "Celluloid Chapter" organized an African Film Festival in the steel city of Jamshedpur from Saturday.
The film festival was kicked off with the screening of Oumarou Ganda directed Nigerian movie "Le Wazzou Polygame" and Fadika Kramo-Lancine-directed film "Djeli" of Cote d'...

A threeday FIDE Rating Chess Championship will be held at Ramgarh in Ramgarh district from February 15 to 18.
Around 150 players including 70 rated players are likely to take part in the Ram Narayan Singh Memorial Jharkhand State Open, organised for the first time in Ramgarh, the Jharkhand State Chess...

Two local industry bodies have requested the Jharkhand Government to provide land to Tata Steel for building an airport in Jamshedpur.
In a joint meeting in Jamshedpur on Sunday, the Singhbhum Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Adityapur Small Industries Association expressed anguish over the delay in providing the land...

Jamshedpur: Singhbhum Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) and several other industrial and trade organisations on Sunday observed a daylong fast and staged dharna near Pardih Kali Mandir, on National Highway 33 in support of their demand for immediate action to improve the pitiable condition of the NH33.
Led by the...

Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren on Thursday ordered initiation of relief measures to people affected by flood in Sahibganj and Jamshedpur districts.
He also asked the officials concerned to set up camps, if necessary, and mobile health clinics, officials said in Ranchi. Chairing a high-level meeting on the flood situation in...

Onions are being provided free with the purchase of car and truck tyres by a tyre seller inJamshedpur to protest the rise in the price of the edible bulb.
"As the price of onion has gone up to Rs 60 a kg inJamshedpur, we have decided to offer five kg of...

Ranchi: A man was beaten to death by his friend and some others when he protested molestation of his sisterinlaw in Jharkhand's Jamshedpur district, police said Wednesday.
According to police, Krishna, a resident of Birsanagar colony in Jamshedpur, around 130 km from Ranchi, was returning home along with his sisterinlaw Tuesday...

Jamshedpur: At least two Maoists were killed and three jawans got injured in an encounter between the ultras and the security forces in a forest in SeraikelaKharswan district in Jharkhand, police said on Tuesday. Earlier police had said one Maoist was killed and two jawans were injured in the encounter...

Jharkhand: One Maoist was killed and two security men were injured on Monday in an encounter in Jharkhand. Police officials said they received a tipoff that Maoists were about to assemble in the forest whereupon the police, COBRA and CRPF forces rushed to the spot.
The Maoists fired on seeing the...

Jamshedpur: Country's automobile giant Tata Motors Jamshedpur plant has rolled out of the two millionth (20 lakh) truck from its worldclass manufacturing facility.
The truck which marked the milestone was rolled out in the presence of company's Managing Director Karl Slym and Executive Director (Commercial Vehicle) Ravi...

Jamshedpur: Nine persons, including a photo journalist, were injured during a clash between contract labourers and security guards at Tata Steel who opened fire at the agitated workers here on Monday. The trouble started when the security guards, in accordance with a new company circular, asked the labourers to board...